Israel certainly does in so many international forums, ranging from regional groupings in FIFA (soccer to the colonials amongst us) where Israel is considered in Europe as opposed to the geographically correct Asia, to the UN where Israel is similarly excluded from its natural region and is instead part of “Western Europe and Others Group“. Similarly Israel is part of TV’s Eurovision (although I’m not sure an Asiavision actually exists).

All these instances – and there are more – of Israel’s geographical revisionism – are due to one simple fact: the Arab states and their cohorts will not accept Israel’s presence in either physical or political terms.

These cases are all bad enough, but at least Israel does get a look-in, albeit in the wrong regional grouping. However in recent weeks Israel has been outrageously excluded from several important events.

The world has gone potty, the UK is in Election mode for better or worse at this time we should be sticking together as a nation. The world seems to think that a the uk should help the world,Yes we can if allowed we can help by help building a good life for all. How by the world population should learn to respect others. different ways ways of religion and culture.

Let those live for what is their belief. Many of us will just live in fear, young people are so aggresive there is no need. I do feel intiminated they are so rough in their attitude a great shame’

I feel that nobody should live in fear, or poverty wether in no belonging or lack of work or funds for their children. the governmenets of this country an wworld wide

The atrocities, the way women and children have been ethnically cleans is just terrible the world needs to see it like another Holocaust the reports on \British television BBC and Independent ITV

For me this is the most terrible situation nobody likes to hear of such terrible, Kofe Annan has been there so has the rest of those so called peace makers they need to be bold tell the rest of the world this cannot be tolerated.

Melanie Phillips nails it when she calls out anti-Zionism for what it is – bigotry. Ms. Phillips is never backwards in coming forwards in pointing out the double standards relating to Israel, but this latest article of hers is outstanding.

… I have been brooding over the fact that Zionism has become a dirty word in Britain and the west.

For many in these societies, Zionism has now become equated with racism. This group libel, once regarded with revulsion by decent people when the Soviet-Arab axis got the UN to endorse it in 1975, has now become the prism through which the BBC, academia, the artistic and theatrical world and much of the rest of the cultural establishment now frame all references to Israel.

This helps explain the attempted boycott of the Israeli theatre company Habima, playing Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice at London’s Globe theatre this evening in conditions of…